Say Goodnight Gracie: The Love, Laughter and Life of George Burns by Rupert Holmes. Frank Gorshin as George Burns. Directed by John Tillinger. Scenic Consultant John Lee Beatty. Lighting design by Howard Werner. Sound design by Kevin Lacy. Multimedia design by Howard Werner and Peter Nigrini. Technical Supervision by Larry Morley.

The 2003 Broadway production of "Say Goodnight Gracie" (which starred impressionist Frank Gorshin) was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. One of the most popular matinees on Broadway that season, it was best appreciated by those who have many memories of George and Gracie.

Nothing could better illustrate the canniness of "Say Good Night Gracie," which really is, as its subtitle says, "the life, loves and laughter of George Burns." That's just what Gracie was. It was the peculiar stage genius of Burns and Allen to focus everything on her, making Burns her straight man, the avenue leading us to her sublime, sunny illogic.

Despite a shockingly trite opening concept—Burns has died and has to give God a "command performance" of his life before entering heaven—the play manages to deliver a handful of vintage gags successfully. Gorshin has Burns' comic timing down pat, and unlike so many monodramas, "Say Goodnight Gracie" isn't afraid to shift the focus toward someone other than the person on stage. In fact, what little depth the play has comes from Burns and Allen's durable, fruitful collaboration of 42 years. "I discovered I had a great talent," Burns says early on. "So I married her."

By making her his subject as well as his performing partner, Burns could be said to have exploited Gracie and her good heart. But his own heart was in it, too; Gorshin makes that clear. "Say Good Night Gracie" isn't exactly theater, but it warms the audience's heart, too.

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THE setting of Rupert Holmes's biographical one-man play, ''Say Goodnight Gracie,'' is a kind of purgatory in which the comedian George Burns finds himself after his death in 1996 at the age of 100. Addressing God, he appears to be told to review his life in his own words, and if what he says is approved, he will join his wife and comic partner, Gracie Allen, who had died some years earlier. The title of the play refers to Burns's direction to Allen, at the end of their radio and television shows. In the production at the Helen Hayes Theater, directed by John Tillinger, Frank Gorshin plays Burns.

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Say Goodnight Gracie is the hit Broadway play that invites you to spend a hilarious, heart-warming evening in the uplifting company of the world’s favorite and funniest centenarian. George Burns, who spanned one hundred years of American entertainment history, is now miraculously alive and kicking in a stunning tour de force. Say Goodnight Gracie was Broadway’s third longest running solo performance show and was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for BEST PLAY and won the 2003-04 National Broadway Theatre Award for BEST PLAY.Say Goodnight Gracie is a tender, funny, life-affirming love story ... a personal guided tour through an American century in the company of George Burns, a man who laughingly lived and loved each day for all it had to offer, until he finally went “gently into that good night” to forever reunite with his beloved Gracie.

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"Say Goodnight Gracie" is exactly what you'd expect. Those of you bursting with glee at the prospect of watching Frank Gorshin impersonate George Burns for 90 minutes should hightail it to the Helen Hayes. Those of you aghast at the very idea have been warned.

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Actor Alan Safier brings George Burns to life at Easton's State Theatre on Friday in the critically acclaimed one-man show "Say Goodnight Gracie." Safier has been portraying Burns both in New York and on tour for more than five years. The State Theatre appearance marks the beginning of his sixth touring season.

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Alan Safier stars in Say Goodnight Gracie, the hit Tony-nominated Broadway play by Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) that invites you to spend a hilarious, heart-warming evening in the uplifting company of the world’s favorite and funniest centenarian.